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ent; to analyze and describe grammatically. Let him construe the letter into English, and parse it over perfectly. Ascham.

The Iranian dialect of much of the religious literature of the Parsees.

The religion and customs of the Parsees.

One who parses.

hinly scattered; set or planted here and there; not being dense or close together; as, a sparse population. Carlyle.

Sparsely. [Obs.]

In a scattered or sparse manner.

The quality or state of being sparse; as, sparseness of population.

f the genus Smyrnium, formerly cultivated and used as celery now is; -- called also horse parsely.

which originated in Persia in 1843, being a mixture of Mohammedan, Christian, Jewish and Parsee elements.

To cover sparsely by scattering (something); to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.

ly in Persia, among the followers of Zoroaster, called Chebers, or Guebers, and among the Parsees of India. -- Greek fire. See under Greek. -- On fire, burning; hence, ardent; passionate; eager; zealous. -- Running fire, the rapid discharge of firearms in succession by a line of troops. -- St. Anthony's fire, erysi…

A worshiper of fire; a Zoroastrian; a Parsee.

le around; to throw down loosely; to deposit or place here and there, esp. in an open or sparse order. And some are scattered all the floor about. Chaucer. Why should my muse enlarge on Libyan swains, Their scattered cottages, and ample plains Dryden. Teach the glad hours to scatter, as they fly, Soft quiet, gentle lov…

Sparsely; scatteredly; here and there.

A small quantity scattered, or sparsely distributed; a sprinkling.

Insufficiently provided with hands or workers; short-handed; sparsely populated. Norway . . . might defy the world, . . . but it is much underhanded now. Coleridge.

ezdegerdian era, which began on the 16th of June, a. d. 632. The era is still used by the Parsees.

spirit (Ormuzd) and an opposing evil spirit (Ahriman). Cf. Fire worship, under Fire, and Parsee.